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[brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd]

I keep thinking about all the YouTube stuff in the Justin Bieber Coachella set, like it’s some kind of commentary on what it meant to grow up online from 2007-2016, in that era of all these new platform technologies. Deez Nuts, Double Rainbow, his own YouTube work..

He’s the ultimate megastar that played all the cards right and rode all the waves of that era. Just a complete and complex mix of talent + time + place + technology, like Elvis with television. He was who Mr. Beast studied before he pressed record on his first video, whether he realized it or not.

We are never going back to an era like that with this technology in our hands. In the era of creators, anyone with a little talent can get those views. Doesn’t mean that will lead to a compelling paycheck, but the views will be there. Justin Bieber pioneered that route to talent and fame…. And now it’s hard to say if anyone can achieve something similar in today’s Internet.

Internet virality on those same platforms is so commonplace now. But… it’s really only special to the person with the account trying to parlay it into something bigger for themselves, and only very rarely to others. But the dopamine rush of fleeting Internet fame in a system designed to do exactly that million times a day, to max attention spans, is crazy intoxicating.

The more I think about it, Bieber’s set was a memorial for a digital frontier we’re never getting back.

The Wild West of that YouTube era is very paved over, and everybody's just paying rent to the feed.

[` @lisaawrites]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

i'm actually sick to my stomach about this

[solelynostalgia @solelynostalgia]

HOW LONG AGO??..

[Small Waist, Pretty Face. @oddettem]

Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..lt shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames another for having at 36 because she's too old..lt shames a woman who marries young as well as the one who marries old..It shames women who don't have beautiful bodies and shames those who go under the knife to get the bodies. This world shames all women, not a single one of us is spared, not a single one. So love and make yourselves happy.

[𝐵𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝐾 @misskerrington]

ever since i was a little girl i have loved staying up really late hanging out with myself and thinking about stuff and things

[Drebae @Drebae_]

Just stalked my own instagram archive & forgot I lived all those eras 😭😭😭 Miss you sis. You had so much fun.

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

okay i been 30 for almost 2 weeks now i'm not sad anymore i feel cooler

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

DEXTER 4EVER

[King Wow @KingWow]

This was Kanye’s whole bag lol

[michelle. @michkeenah]

black atheists and agnostics are the realest niggas ever bc it takes a lot of bravery and belief in self to question and leave behind a religion that is so intrinsically linked to our (colonial!) cultural identity

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

i forget how much i've accomplished & overcome during this decade of my life. i've been blessed to build a life for myself BY MYSELF some people couldn't even imagine. i'm reminding myself for the decades to come that i'm who tf i think i am no matter tf what

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

EVER

[ROYALE @royalepains]

I’m not paying them student loans back .. y’all can get tf on fr

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

JUSTIN BIEBER SUPREMECY EST. 2009!!!!!!

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

i'm so glad i can still speak/understand spanish so well after all these years

[N @dearvotion]

Thinking about human’s resemblance to a tree on Earth Day.

[sam greisman @SAMGREIS]

Ok the biggest recession indicator of them all!!!

[Tiffany ⚢ Woman4Women @Woman4W]

From humans to cows to chickens to fish, there is something utterly heartbreaking about the horrors and indignities humans inflict on female creatures in order to profit off of their fertility. 💔

[$haiya @dearshaiya]

Yearly 'Snowfall' rewatch. "him, him, HIM, HER, HIM, HIM, bodies, bodies, bodies, BODIES!!!!!"